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Aloysia

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Etymology

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Catalan botanist Antoni Palau i Verdera / Antonio Palau y Verdera described the type species, a novelty in the Royal Botanical Garden of Madrid opened in 1781 near the National Museum of Natural Sciences, in his Parte práctica de Botánica Part I (1784) page 767–771 to honour then Crown Princess of Spain Maria Luisa of Parma.

Proper noun

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Aloysia f

  1. A taxonomic genus within the family Verbenaceae – beebrush.

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